{"id":29275,"date":"2021-03-05T04:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/04\/indias-top-judge-tells-accused-rapist-to-marry-victim-to-avoid-jail"},"modified":"2021-03-05T04:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:01:29","slug":"indias-top-judge-tells-accused-rapist-to-marry-victim-to-avoid-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29275","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s top judge tells accused rapist to marry victim to avoid jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharad Arvind Bobde faces calls to resign over remarks to government technician about schoolgirl<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s top judge is facing calls to resign after telling an accused rapist to marry his schoolgirl victim to avoid jail.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the chief justice Sharad Arvind Bobde quit after he told the government technician at a hearing: \u201cIf you want to marry [her] we can help you. If not, you lose your job and go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/04\/indias-top-judge-tells-accused-rapist-to-marry-victim-to-avoid-jail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharad Arvind Bobde faces calls to resign over remarks to government technician about schoolgirlIndia\u2019s top judge is facing calls to resign after telling an accused rapist to marry his schoolgirl victim to avoid jail.More than 5,000 people have signed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29275\/revisions\/29277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}